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28 Oct 12, 03:34 PM |
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Texangeles Pre-Trippie
Pre-ramble
Right now we’re sat in Heathrow’s Terminal 5 Terraces lounge and we’ve just enjoyed snacking on cold cuts, cheese and biscuits with the unique drinks combo of hot coffee with a ice cold vodka on the side, and I’m just starting to record our latest trip. Even though we are lucky enough to fly a few times each year, I'm not a happy flyer, and today my self inflicted anxieties felt worse than normal - and I think this may be due to the fact that on this trIp we will be meeting up with our friends Mickeyetta and her hubby Si later this week. Sound strange, then let me back track and explain a little further and travel back in time. Back earlier this year Mickeyetta and Si were looking into doing a cruise from Vancouver to San Diego, and then spend a few nights in Las Vegas at the end of September this year and asked if we'd like to join them. We've been to the West coast before and there was no appeal to visiting this fantastic area by ship, but suggested that we join them in Las Vegas after their cruise. After time though Mickeyetta and her amazing research started looking at doing more of a fly drive around California to really experience the areas that we had raved about. Meanwhile, one morning in the beginning of August Roo managed to sustain a nasty injury to his left knee whilst trying to perform the dangerous activity of getting the George Forman out of a low kitchen cabinet. After a trip to A&E, an x-ray, time off sick, weeks on crutches and finally an MRI he was confirmed to have torn cartilage in several places and due to have keyhole surgery 6 days after returning home from this trip. By now he did have much more movement in his knee, but still had pain and difficulties in walking, so this trip would have to be slowed down from our usual pace to accommodate. So here we are many moons later the afternoon of our flight on the 26th September 2012, Mickeyetta and Si flew out last Friday to Los Angeles, where they travelled straight off to Santa Monica for one night in a very nice Fairmont and experienced a beautifully romantic sunset. Then travelled to Cambria for another nice hotel by the beach piled high with sea-lions, and are currently enjoying four nights in Ghirardelli's Fairmont (wow wow wow). Then off to Yosemite for a couple more nights, then Bakersfield for one night and then meeting us in Las Vegas on Sunday! Meanwhile we had planned to fly to Houston, spend one night at the airport (for two reasons, flight was due in late and for a lovely lazy start to the trip), then drive to Kyle to revisit The Inn Above Onion Creek (check out our earlier review on the Dibb and trip advisor for why we're going back), for three nights. Then driving to Dallas on Sunday to catch a domestic flight to Las Vegas to hopefully be collected on arrival by our traveling buddies! We are then to spend a whole week together, 5 nights in the stunning Cosmopolitan hotel - then a drive to Los Angeles to visit Disneyland, staying in the Disneyland hotel (a childhood dream finally fulfilled for me), before they set out for a couple more nights in Hollywood whilst we have one final night in Anaheim! As you with me so far? It's been quite complicated to organise, and we've all been so excited for months. Since Mickeyetta and Si left for the West coast we've been communicating regularly, even a Facetime show and tell of their amazing apartment in San Francisco. But here we are, just an hour from getting on the flight to finally start our holiday, knowing already that our friends had started theirs and things were only to get better! Gulp! So sit back, relax and let us take you through our trip that we have lovingly entitled “Texangeles”. |
28 Oct 12, 03:50 PM |
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can't wait to hear about the rest of your holiday - loved all your previous trip reports.
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28 Oct 12, 03:56 PM |
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Fantastic! Another roonlou trippie - happy days
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28 Oct 12, 04:49 PM |
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Sorry to hear about Roo's injury - hope it didn't cause him too much trouble on your trip, which sounds fantastic by the way!
Looking forward to more
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28 Oct 12, 05:07 PM |
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Poor Roo hurting himself , hope it doesn't affect his holiday too much
Looking forward to reading your report, they are always a pleasure to read
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28 Oct 12, 05:18 PM |
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Those George Foremans should come with a health warning . Hope he's ok
Lovely photos |
28 Oct 12, 05:20 PM |
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Join Date: Apr 03
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Always love reading your trippies! Looking forward to this one Have a good flight!
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28 Oct 12, 06:45 PM |
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Me too, you write great trippies! Pussycat
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28 Oct 12, 06:53 PM |
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Great start, love your trippies. Looking forward to reading more
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28 Oct 12, 08:00 PM |
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Looking forward to reading more, your trip reports are always so entertaining
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